Sentences with phrase «of austral»

The weather station showed that surface melt occurred in every month except July, the dead of austral winter.
In the twilight of the austral winter, for a few hours every day, the sea ice turns a fiery orange as shadow puppets trace the cracks across slow - moving waves.
But for researchers at NOAA's South Pole Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, Sunday March 20 marks the start of the austral autumn, the last time they see the sun for six months.
One is that the length of the austral summer co-varies with boreal summer intensity, such that local insolation forcings could result in synchronous deglaciations in each hemisphere (Huybers and Denton, 2008).
A tribe of Austral indigenous people on the Mornington Island have been communicating with wild dolphins for millennia.
Extreme cold can prevent aircraft from operating, and could maroon the team at the station during the total darkness and bitter temperatures of austral winter.
With less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a traditional time for vacationing in both countries.

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Successful restructuring of operations at the company's Casposo mine in Argentina by experienced local partner Austral Gold Limited may also lead to a further cash inflow for Troy as Austral have the right to gradually increase their equity in that project over time.
Below are the 1st day results of the Uber Cup 2010 badminton championships in Kuala Lumpur: - China 5 - 0 USA Indonesia 5 - 0 Austral...
Argo floats and satellites are now helping to plug Austral ocean data gaps, and improving the accuracy of Northern Hemisphere measurements and estimates.
After migrating hundreds of miles from their winter feeding grounds, they marched off the ice in the austral spring and — even though their nesting territories were concealed under snow — headed to the very colonies where many were hatched or had raised chicks before.
Physician Alexander Kumar and Erick Bondoux, two residents passing austral winter at Concordia, snapped this photo of the dramatic aurorae over the station on July 18.
An austral summer sun — above the horizon 24 hours a day from late October until late February in this region of the continent — glints off the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The analysis produced a genetic match between a female whale observed and sampled off the coast of southern Chile in the Austral summer of 2006; it turned out the same whale sampled the waters of the Galapagos eight years earlier by NOAA scientists.
Scientists studying blue whales in the waters of Chile through DNA profiling and photo - identification may have solved the mystery of where these huge animals go to breed, as revealed by a single female blue whale named «Isabela,» according to a recent study by the Chile's Blue Whale Center / Universidad Austral de Chile, NOAA and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Submarine personnel first described the oddly repetitive call, which is one of the most common sounds in that ocean during the austral winter.
Scientists lack sufficient understanding of wind turbines» noise and best ways to mitigate the effects, says Jorge Arenas, a faculty member in the Universidad Austral de Chile's College of Engineering Sciences and director of its Institute of Acoustics.
This is energetically costly, says Roberto Nespolo at the Austral University of Chile.
Would there be a single consciousness contemplating, in one great image, the entire dome of the sky, the austral and boreal skies joined seamlessly at the horizon?
Across the Indian Ocean: A remarkable example of trans - oceanic dispersal in an austral mygalomorph spider.
The interval over which we expect cooling of the interior is when ozone depletion was accelerating (1960s through late 20th century) and this is precisely when we reproduce the cooling trend both in the reconstruction (primarily during the Austral fall season) and the model simulation experiments discussed in the paper.
Beginning in the austral summer of 2017/2018 SALSA aims gather new knowledge about the Antarctic Subglacial Environment through sampling from Subglacial Lake Mercer.
Mitochondrial phylogeography of the land snail Cornu aspersum: Tracing population history and the impact of human - mediated invasion in austral South America.
Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is designed to withstand the hardships of the Antarctic winter, but is currently occupied during the Austral summer only (November - February) in almost permanent daylight.
Amundsen - Scott South Pole Station, dedicated in January 2008, begins austral summer operations in October of each year.
At an elevation of 2,835 meters (9,300 feet), South Pole has an average monthly temperature in the austral summer of -28 °C -LRB--18 °F); in the austral winter, the average monthly temperature is -60 °C -LRB--76 °F).
Lidar was collected in the austral summer of 2014 - 2015 with the objective of studying geomorphic changes over the past decade.
Emu - Austral Ornithology has been the flagship of BirdLife Australia for over a century.
The new government intended to stabilize the economy and in 1985 introduced austerity measures and a new currency, the Argentine austral, the first of its kind without peso in its name.
The Honorable Juan Gabriel Valdés, ambassador of Chile to the United States, visited the College of Veterinary Medicine recently, meeting with university officials to review and propose expansion of the College's successful exchange program with veterinary colleges in Chile, most notably Austral University in Valdivia.
A ride aboard the historic Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino, which restarted operations in 1994, offers visitors a glimpse into Ushuaia's penitentiary past, as well as stunning vistas of Isla Grande's rugged peaks and lush valleys.
Coming up next, the final installment of Pan-American Transmissions: La Carretera Austral: On a Gravel Road to the End of the World.
The reason is that the cold Humboldt current which travels northward up the coast of Chile and Peru during the Austral winter months of May - November creates prevailing onshore wind conditions during this period, with the wind and swell coming from the same direction.
The Austral Hotel is placed in the East End of Rundle Street, which is the heart of Adelaide's cafe and restaurant district and is a two minute walk to Rundle Mall, the main shopping area of the city.
He will be talking about conservation in Patagonia, and will be joined by Tuppence Stone, Producer of the recent BBC 2 series Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise, and Hugh Sinclair, author of the Bradt guide to Chile's Carretera Austral.
Maritime Museum of Ushuaia Housed in the former Prison of Ushuaia with collections ranging from naval models, the history of Antarctic exploration and other various aspects such as austral wildlife, gold prospecting, the primitive inhabitants, as well as ongoing expeditions and research.
Here, the Carretera Austral runs through some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world.
After that, we spent the rest of the month of January hitchhiking in Carretera de Austral in Patagonia Chile (1000 kms).
In the 2011 - 12 Austral summer, Azamara Journey guests can choose a three - night Buenos Aires & Iguazu Falls land - tour holiday extension to experience all the culture, flavours, and colours of this vibrant South American city.
An adventure along the northern half of the legendary Carretera Austral and spend two nights in Queulat National Park.
But here at Swoop, we say that there's nothing like the freedom of the Carretera Austral.
From the secluded Paradise Cove Resort amid the dreamy Whitsundays to a surreal world beneath the surface of the Great Barrier Reef, to the tranquillity of Lake McKenzie on Fraser Island, this Austral...
• The methanetrack.org website has shown significant increases in atmospheric methane concentrations over Antarctica this austral winter (which I believe are due to increases in methane emissions from the Southern Ocean seafloor due to increases in the temperature of bottom water temperatures), and if this trend continues, then the Southern Hemisphere could be a significant source of additional atmospheric methane (this century).
Since we are now officially in an ENSO that is supposed to last through the austral summer, the likelihood of yet another dry year in the southeast seems good.
In fact, as I proposed in my overview of ice trends last October, the system up there may be becoming more like the sea ice around Antarctica, which flashes into existence each austral winter and then all disappears each southern summer.
The reef flat at Moorea displayed a higher rate of organic production and a lower rate of calcification compared to previous measurements carried out during austral summer.
Global maps of serial correlation in non-linearly detrended monthly time - series for boreal summer (top) and austral summer (bottom).
Sunset over Palmer Station as sea ice begins to move out of the bay in preparation for the austral summer.
However, it instead has happened this austral winter with loss of an additional 160 km2 of ice.
We determine its likely evolution for three intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) special report on emission scenarios (SRES) for austral summer and winter, using a multi-model ensemble of IPCC fourth assessment report models which resolve stratospheric ozone recovery.
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